(1) CHENGDU WORLDCON ROUNDUP. [Item by Ersatz Culture.] Hugo winner RiverFlow’s con report Some of the events in this length con report, with lots of photos, have been briefly covered in a prior Scroll, and comments, but this report is absolutely … Continue reading
By Steve Vertlieb: Forgotten with the inevitable passage of time, as well as the entirely justified praise for Martin Scorsese’s epic masterpiece, Killers of the Flower Moon, is the fact that the tragic true story of the wholesale slaughter of … Continue reading
(1) My mother’s mental state was actually back to about normal today. And putting together even this short Scroll will do wonders for mine. (2) AFROPANTHEOLOGY. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Joshua Uchenna Omenga provide an “Introduction to Afropantheology” at Public Books. African … Continue reading
Three WSFS committee reports submitted to the Chengdu Worldcon Business Meeting are now publicly available. The Mark Protection Committee report (which also includes the Hugo Awards Marketing Committee report) can be downloaded from The World Science Fiction Society website, and … Continue reading
(0) WGA/AMPTP REACH DEAL. Shortly after the Scroll was posted, I received this news item reported by Variety: “Deal! WGA, AMPTP Agree to Deal After 146-Day Writers Strike”. Hollywood heaves a sigh of relief. The WGA and major studios and streamers have … Continue reading
[Introduction: Towards the end of the 2019 Worldcon, I set about modifying a set of the Dublin 2019 ribbons I had been given, and handed some out, writing an article about it in 2020. That piece went to Banana Wings, … Continue reading
(1) LE GUIN ON HER ILLEGAL ABORTION IN 1950. Arwen Curry told Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin Kickstarter backers that a “New Ursula K. Le Guin short film series starts today on LitHub!” The Journey That Matters, a series of … Continue reading
Which toys will make it into the National Toy Hall of Fame this November? Can Battleship sink the competition? Will the Little Tykes Cozy Coupe cross the finish line? Can Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks pick the right path? Will slime ooze … Continue reading
(0) While drafting this Scroll I got a call that I need to go pick up a prescription for my mother and drive it over to her skilled nursing facility. So I’ll have to put off the rest of this … Continue reading
(1) VIRTUAL SFF CONFERENCE. The theme of the Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA), to be held November 5-11, 2023, is “AI, Algorithms, Automata and Art” Organized by new Virtual Conference Coordinator and Afropantheologist Oghenechovwe Ekpeki. … Continue reading